Eggenburg Brotherhood
The Eggenburg Brotherhood was the name given to the guild of stonemasons and sculptors in Eggenburg , Lower Austria. Eggenburg was first subordinate to the main hut in Vienna and in 1629 became an independent quarter store, a guild district.
Stone was broken around Eggenburg as early as the Middle Ages , including stone for St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. In the 17th century, after the victorious end of the Second Turkish Siege, the growing building activities of the Baroque period in Vienna led to a demand for building materials, including stone from the area around Eggenburg. Well-known quarries were found there, which were able to supply the Eggenburg Brotherhood with their materials and contribute to the development of a center for stonemasonry in the region around Eggenburg. Mostly used types of stone were:
- Zogelsdorfer Stein , a sculptural stone quarried near Zogelsdorf.
- Kaiserstein from the Kaisersteinbruch , the hardest stone of the Leitha Mountains .
The following people belong to the important members of the Eggenburg Brotherhood or their circle:
- Reichardt Fux
- Adam Haresleben
- Johann Georg Haresleben
- Thomas Haresleben
- Franz was called
- Georg Andreas Högl
- Johann Caspar Högl
- Johann Gallus Hill
- Matthias Knox
- Andreas Steinböck
- Gabriel Steinböck
- Veith Steinböck
- Wolfgang Steinböck
- Johann Michael Strickner
- Joseph Winkler
- Matthias Winkler
literature
- Alois Kieslinger : Stone handicraft in Eggenburg and Zogelsdorf . In: Our home . Volume 8, No. 5–7, 1935.
- Gaspar Burghard: The white stone from Eggenburg, the Zogelsdorfer sand-lime stone and its masters . Reprint from The Waldviertel . Volume 4. 44th year, 1995.
- Helmuth Furch: "Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch" , communications from the Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch , Vol. 1/2002 and Vol. 2/2004.